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Liberalism, Radicalism, And Legal Scholarship, Steven H. Shiffrin
Liberalism, Radicalism, And Legal Scholarship, Steven H. Shiffrin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The Watchdog Of Neutrality, George P. Fletcher
The Watchdog Of Neutrality, George P. Fletcher
Faculty Scholarship
No one knows who counts as a democrat, as a fascist, or as a liberal. It is much easier to know whether it is good or bad to earn one of these political labels. Virtually everyone – including repressive regimes in eastern Europe – regards it as good to be democratic. These days, however, it is hard to encounter a sympathetic wink for fascism. Liberalism is more controversial. A growing number of our colleagues in law schools now regard it as intellectually bankrupt, if not worse, to think of oneself as a liberal. Respectable philosophers chronicle the poverty of liberalism, …